pétitionner
French, verb/pe.ti.sjɔ.ne/
pétitionner is spelled P-É-T-I-T-I-O-N-N-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written French, the 212,128th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pétitionner is a French verb meaning “to petition” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire des pétitions, en faire fréquemment ou collectivement”.
What does pétitionner mean in English?
verb
- 1
to petition
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire des pétitions, en faire fréquemment ou collectivement.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pétitionner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pétitionnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pétitionné participle past
- pétitionne first-person indicative present
- pétitionnes indicative present second-person
- pétitionnons first-person indicative plural
- pétitionnez indicative plural present
- pétitionnent indicative plural present
- pétitionnais first-person imperfect indicative
- pétitionnait imperfect indicative singular
- pétitionnions first-person imperfect indicative
- pétitionniez imperfect indicative plural
- pétitionnaient imperfect indicative plural
- pétitionnai first-person historic indicative
- pétitionnas historic indicative past
- pétitionna historic indicative past
- pétitionnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pétitionner?
- /pe.ti.sjɔ.ne/
- \pe.ti.sjɔ.ne\
- [pe.ti.ɬ͡sjɔ.ne]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pétitionner
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pétitionner in French?
pétitionner appears about once in every 45 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).